This Coronation Street star has been dating financial advisor Martin for a few months, and a source has said the couple are ‘thriving’
Coronation Street’s Lisa George, who portrayed Beth Tinker on the popular ITV soap for 13 years from 2011 to 2024, has found love with a wealthy financial advisor following her body transformation and surgery.
The 52 year old actress chose to have invasive Blepharoplasty surgery earlier this year after years of feeling unhappy about her appearance. The star has found joy with her financial advisor boyfriend, Martin.
Lisa is said to be “thriving” with her new partner. They shared: “Lisa has never looked or felt better – and her love life is thriving. She’s having a great time with Martin. It’s still early days but he’s started attending events with her.”
“It’s the first time in ages she’s been happy to have someone by her side. Everyone is delighted for them.”
The loved-up pair made their public debut at a recent event in Manchester. They graced the Manchester Awards held at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, where Lisa dazzled in a glittery gold dress.
At the start of last year, she scheduled a consultation with a top facial surgeon in Manchester, just as she was preparing to bid farewell to the cobbles. Around that time, the star confessed that she would only use specific makeup on screen to conceal her eye lids.
Grimsby-born Lisa has also undergone a major health transformation over the last year, with the help of a surgical tweak, and is finally loving who she sees in the mirror. As well as getting stuck into two history diplomas, Lisa – who competed on Dancing On Ice in 2020 – has also been managing a medical condition which has left her partially blind in one eye and without peripheral vision in her other.
She received a diagnosis of NAION (non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy) after years of searching for answers since first experiencing sight loss in 2016, with a recurrence in 2022.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror last month, she said: “I feel like my eyes have stabilised at the moment. I can see distances absolutely fine, but I can’t see writing. All writing and numbers are really blurred, so I need glasses for reading, and for driving I have varifocals, so I can see the SatNav.”
“I don’t like doing night driving because I have blind spots, but I think that’s also an age thing! If we were filming Corrie scenes on the pavement in the dark, I’d ask to be on the inside of the pavement because I couldn’t see the edge of the kerb.”
Deciding it was time to address her issue, Lisa took a year to muster up the courage to book an £8,000 operation due to the potential risks, including possible blindness. She also disclosed that she had been diagnosed with a rare genetic eye condition known as NAION – non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, which causes sudden vision loss due to insufficient blood flow and oxygen to the optic nerve.
She had already experienced several incidents resulting in peripheral vision in one eye after permanent vision loss in the other. She said: “To be honest, I don’t mention it that often. When I was on Coronation Street, the only reason many people knew was because my script was in font size 16 so they could probably see it from the other side of the set!”
“I’m classed as “visually impaired” now on my Spotlight CV, and that did make me wonder if people maybe wouldn’t want to cast me. But there is better access now for people with all sorts of disabilities so I don’t let it worry me.”
“At one point, I had to walk off stage, and there was smoke everywhere as part of the show, so I couldn’t see where I was going but two dancers led me off. It was a small thing but it made it possible. They were brilliant, so supportive.”
